Complexity and decentralization are two of many factors that exacerbate the criminality and corruption in financial institutions, professor of politics in the Wilson School Nolan McCarty said in a lecture on Wednesday.
McCarty began his lecture by discussing the main thesis of his newly co-authored book, “Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy.” His discussion focused on financial crimes, such as money laundering and bank fraud, as systematic problems that shed light on the relationship between the financial sector and the federal government.

Following the University's decision to cancel overnight stays for Princeton Preview, theAlumni Association is scheduled to meet later this week for a "key meeting" that will discuss whether changes should be made to Reunions this year in light of the meningitis outbreak, according to Associate Director for Reunions Mibs Mara.
Mara declined to comment further until the meeting has taken place.
In response to the outbreak of meningitis, which began in March 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and theand the New Jersey Department of Health advised members of the University community to increase hygienic practices and avoid sharing items such as drinking glasses and utensils, but did not advise the University to curtail any of its events or activities.
No changes were made to Reunions last year, even though the situation at the University was officially designated as an outbreak less than two weeks before Reunions was set to start.
The University recentlyannounced that it will cancel overnight staysduring Princeton Preview for the health safety of newly admitted students.

During a lecture on Tuesday, former Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Julie Gerberding discussed the challenge of developing vaccines to deal with the growing number of new infectious diseases that have limited antimicrobial treatments.
Gerberding began with an overview of the problems the CDC and vaccine companies face in properly distributing vaccines around the world.

The University has investigated at least one serious medical case as a potential adverse reaction to the meningitis vaccine, although a link was deemed unlikely in that case.
An undergraduate student was sent to the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro less than 24 hours after receiving the vaccine with a condition ofrhabdomyolysis, an acute breakdown of muscle tissue that causes muscle fiber and protein to be transferred into the bloodstream, risking severe kidney damage.
Although the vaccine may have had a temporal correlation with the student getting rhabdomyolysis, specialists at University Health Services and the UMCPP said they do not believe the vaccine directly caused the condition.
There has been no past correlation between rhabdomyolysis and the meningitis vaccine in Europe and Australia, where the vaccine was approved for use.
Dr. Peter Johnsen, director of medical services at UHS, said that two specialists who observed the case both determined that the student’s illness was not related to the meningitis vaccine.
“We posed that question to specialists in the hospital and another specialist, and in both cases, they felt that it was not likely to be related,” Johnsen said.

Former President of the United Nations General Assembly Vuk Jeremic gave a lecture Thursday in which he argued that regional and national governments are facing a growing danger in continuing to misalign short-term priorities with long-term needs.
Sustainable development is an essential component to moving forward and preserving humanity, he said.

Princeton’s dining facilities have reported numerous minor health violations, despite receiving overall “Satisfactory” ratings, according to a review of health records covering the past three years.The records, obtained through New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act, show that more than half of the University dining facilities used dining equipment that was in violation of health protocols, including soiled can-openers, debris-filled tray tunnels and kitchen drains in disrepair.More than half of the facilities also had violations with regards to the maintenance of kitchen floors or walls and the protection of food against contamination.

Juniors and seniors undertaking their junior papers and theses will now receive additional guidance from the Office of the Dean of the College’s newly published Guides to Independent Work, the University announced last week.

As Thanksgiving approaches and many students head home for the holiday, a group of their international peers will experience American culture firsthand through the Thanksgiving Host Family Program run by the Friends of Davis International Center.The program began four years ago to accommodate students and academic fellows who remained on campus for Thanksgiving, according to Hanna Hand, volunteer liaison to the Davis International Center and the director of the program.

With the end of his term as chairman of the Federal Reserve slated to expire in January, former professor and chair of the economics department Ben Bernanke’s plans for life after government are still unclear.
“I prefer not to talk about my plans at this point,” Bernanke told reporters at a Sept.

Latin America is improving and undergoing transformative democratization, Mario Vargas Llosa, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, said in a conversation Tuesday with visiting lecturer in the Program in Latin American Studies Enrique Krauze Kleinbort.